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How Bernie Sanders changed his views on identity politics

Bernie Sanders said back in 2016 that identity politics distracts from what he felt were the more pressing issues of economic inequality and dismantling of organized labor. Why, then, is the legendary black feminist scholar Barbara Smith — who helped coin the term "identity politics" — casting her lot with the Vermont senator's 2020 Democratic presidential campaign? "I think he's obviously changed. That's manifested in the kind of campaign he has run," says Smith, who points to the diverse, grassroots, multiracial coalition that has rallied behind Sanders. "He has the plans. He has the passion and the compassion. He has the base of support, which is much more diverse than I think any of the other candidates at this point." Smith criticizes the way the term "identity politics" has become distorted from the way its original coiners, the Combahee River Collective, first theorized it: Not as a means of creating division, but as an ethical basis for building coalitions. #DemocracyNow Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on nearly 1,400 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: https://democracynow.org Please consider supporting independent media by making a donation to Democracy Now! today: https://democracynow.org/donate FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW! ONLINE: YouTube:    / democracynow   Facebook:   / democracynow   Twitter:   / democracynow   Instagram:   / democracynow   SoundCloud:   / democracynow   iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/demo... Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe